A lake has formed in the typically-dry Badwater Basin at Death Valley National Park in California — and it's lasting a surprisingly long time.

Lake Manly, which appears in California’s Death Valley National Park when enough rain falls, recently migrated, thanks to the wind. With not enough water, it’s closed to boats.

Visitors normally flock to Death Valley National Park to feel the searing heat and take in the barren landscape. This fall, they’ve been drawn by a different natural feature: water.

Death Valley, one of the hottest, driest, places on the planet has a visitor, it’s a lake. Unofficially, it has been labeled Manly Lake, and it is something that rarely occurs at the lowest ...

NASA satellite photos show lake formation. Between the two torrential downpours, Death Valley National Park's valley floor has received a record 4.9 inches in the past six months, far surpassing ...

Visitors view the temporary lake at the Badwater Basin salt flats in Death Valley on October 23, 2023, following flooding last August from Tropical Storm Hilary. The lake is now closed to boating ...

A temporary lake in Death Valley National Park doubled after recent rains and is now deep enough to launch a kayak. Prior to August, the lake hadn't appeared in 19 years.

A previously dry area in Death Valley National Park is now home to a lake, following heavy rain from Tropical Storm Hilary. NPS. With a heat wave descending on the region this weekend, the ...

Death Valley is the hottest place on Earth and among the driest. Now visitors can kayak through parts of the park in the ephemeral Lake Manly. It emerged in August after Hurricane Hilary and has ...

In Death Valley, the winds started to pick up in the afternoon on Feb. 29, and they consistently blew between 20 and 33 miles per hour on March 1 and 2, according to weather data from the National ...

Park Ranger Nicole Andler said Badwater Basin at Death Valley National Park, which runs along part of central California’s border with Nevada, “is normally a very beautiful, bright white salt flat.” ...